Class Discussion Week 2 Chapter 3 Case Study: Read the case study described at the end of Chapter 3 “Pirates of Globalization” (p.112) and for the class discussion think about discussing your thoughts to the following questions as listed in the case. 1. What actions can companies and governments take to ensure that products cannot be easily pirated? Be specific. 2. Do you think that the international business community is being too lax about the abuse of intellectual property rights? Are
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Political Challenges China has been under the communist party rule for many decades. The communist party exercises absolute power over legislations and economic & cultural institutions. Unlike western economies where the government promotes transparency for doing business; in China rules and regulations are not so transparent or absolute. Large manufacturing businesses can come under various regulations and bureaucracies‚ China promotes a form of social network called guanxiwang‚ where guanxi
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Ethics Question: Some argue that aggressively investing in emerging economies is not only economically beneficial‚ but also highly ethical because it may potentially lift many people out of poverty. However‚ others caution that in the absence of reasonable hopes of decent profits‚ rushing to emerging economies is reckless. How would you participate in this debate? As a free-market economic skeptic‚ prior to my readings‚ I felt that investing in emerging markets is more self serving and exploitative
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Before we seek to find out some of the business ethics that business people should embrace‚ it is needful to first understand what the word ’ethics’ refers to. Ethics are a set of moral principles which are recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group‚ for instance the medical ethics‚ legal ethics‚ teaching ethics that brings together people of the same profession. These principles deal with values relating to human conduct with respect to concepts such
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and be sustainable in an aggressively competitive global marketplace. As cultural intelligence is also referred to the person’s capability to adapt to cultural settings that are new or foreign and or unfamiliar settings that are characterized by cultural diversity and still be able to generate the right behavioural attitude that are adaptive and also show an understanding over the diversified culture. The promotion of cultural intelligence capacitates the organization to can become more competitive
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WorldCom. These businesses began with good intentions and ended up internally combusting. All of it was due to the result of GREED. Greed is a disease‚ and has plagued several organizational leaders over time and caused them to go against their good ethics and morals. There are many opinions as to why people commit the acts that they do but the bottom line is that money will sometimes bring out the evil in the best of people and Leaders of Corporate America are not immune. Background:
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addition‚ Kellogg’s created a Social Responsibility Committee in 1979 that now deals with environmental concerns‚ health & safety‚ addiction and abuse‚ and other issues that impact employees and communities. Kellogg’s recently received an award from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for diversity in compliance and ethics. Kellogg’s is also the 2007 national sponsor for Race for the Cure‚ and has a comprehensive program for United Way’s Days of Caring‚ in which the entire company
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Case Study: BP Texas Refinery Introduction According to Lewicki‚ Saunders & Minton (2003)‚ adopting an unethical approach to negotiation in business can have serious consequences. A recent explosion at the British Petroleum (BP) Texas refinery on 24 March‚ 2005 reiterated this and demonstrated the effect of an unethical approach to negotiation with the death of 15 contract workers. Ethical behaviour refers to the standards of conduct such as honesty‚ fairness‚ responsibility and trust. (Lewicki
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are ignorant outsiders. Miss White can deal lots of issues by the relationship‚ even helped Osama bin Laden’s nephew to buy a house; The banker believes that he can rely on money to solve problems‚ including doing charity to seek forgiveness of himself. He even thinks that he can meet the robbers’ requirement of an airplane; Obviously the Mayor has some problems known by White‚so he put pressure on detective Keith to let White deal with this case. These people are the insiders‚ they think that they
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